{"id":267,"date":"2006-08-17T13:06:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T18:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2006\/08\/17\/e-portfolios-the-big-questions\/"},"modified":"2006-08-17T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T18:06:49","slug":"e-portfolios-the-big-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2006\/08\/17\/e-portfolios-the-big-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"e-Portfolios: the big questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous posting (Aug. 8, 2006: e-portfolios, preliminary thoughts) I summarized the state of eportfolios, provided some links to colleges that are using them, tried to map out a definition, and asked some questions.<br \/>\nTwo of the over-arching questions are not technical, though how they are answered might drive the technological decisions about which applications to pursue:<br \/>\n1) who owns the portfolio<br \/>\n2) who is the audience<br \/>\nFor example, if the portfolio is to be owned by the student both while at UVM and beyond, it cannot be hosted by a system or within an account that expires after the student leaves UVM.<br \/>\nIf the portfolio is to reflect the student&#8217;s entire UVM career, it cannot be composed in a system that ties the portfolio to a single course. (Blackboard\/Vista&#8217;s portfolio program seems to have finally figured  out the limitations of a course-based approach. The demo appears to show that each student has a MyPortfolio folder to which they can save material from any of their Blackboard courses. That material can then be presented, as desired, to a number of outside constituencies. Bears further exploration&#8230;can one also save materials from courses that have no corresponding Blackboard component?)<br \/>\nIf the portfolio is to be used for assessment as well as reporting for accreditation purposes, it should easily integrate with UVM&#8217;s current student information systems.<br \/>\nAnd none of this addresses how to build a &#8220;portfolio culture&#8221; within UVM&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous posting (Aug. 8, 2006: e-portfolios, preliminary thoughts) I summarized the state of eportfolios, provided some links to colleges that are using them, tried to map out a definition, and asked some questions. Two of the over-arching questions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2006\/08\/17\/e-portfolios-the-big-questions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}